Satire Website Babylon Bee is Being Marked as Fake News on Facebook

I'll be the first to admit I've been snagged by a few Babylon Bee headlines. Not to the point I needed them fact-checked. More of a double-take. "Wait, did this really happen...oh, you Babylon Bee guys!" But that's just me. Others have needed the stories fact-checked for them. To the point where Facebook is threatening to penalize the Bee's Facebook page.

When the website's founder Adam Ford tweeted this, I actually went to check if it was actually a Bee post. This one is real, y'all.

Although it should have been obvious that the Babylon Bee piece was just a spoof of the ongoing political brouhaha over alleged news media “bias” and “fake news,” some readers missed that aspect of the article and interpreted it literally. But the site’s footer gives away the Babylon Bee’s nature by describing it as “Your Trusted Source For Christian News Satire,” and the site has been responsible for a number of other (usually religious-themed) spoofs that have been mistaken for real news articles.